Much Ado About English

IFTE CONFERENCE 2011

April 18 - 21 2011

University of Auckland

Auckland, New Zealand

Link to conference website

Welcome to the Much Ado About English Conference Wiki!

How to use this wiki:

Presenters - Use this wiki to create a page for your workshop. Simply click the EDIT tab at the top and locate your workshop title from the programme below. Highlight the workshop title and click on the Link button above, the choose Add Link to create a link to a new wiki page. Then click Save.Then click on your workshop title, this should link you to a page of your own. Feel free to upload your resources, or any links that workshop attendees might find useful for other users.

PS. Only highlight a few keywords in your title, otherwise the index to the right is going to get really long!

If you are feeling brave, why not get someone to film you and upload the video to YOUTUBE and embed your presentation on your workshop page after. You may like to encourage attendees to add to your page as well.

Delegates - Use this wiki to access resources shares from your workshops and others. You might like to share any notes you have typed up. Why not create a Google doc and share it on the workshop page?

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Programme Index

Monday April 18th
9.00 - 10.45	Powhiri and morning tea. Waipapa Marae
10.45	Welcome from NZATE President Leanne Webb.
11.00 - 12 00	Opening keynote: Professor Stuart McNaughton, Head of The Woolf Fisher Research Centre, The University of Auckland. Shared Google Notes - feel free to add to them!
12.00 - 1.30	Workshops, papers and seminars: Session One
1.30 - 2.15	Lunch
2.15 - 3.45	Sharing our practice: Panel presentation. Mina Pomare and Chris Selwyn will focus on meeting the needs of Maori immersion students in the English classroom OR Workshops Session Two.
3.45 - 4.15	Afternoon tea
4.15 - 5.15	Keynote: Professor Carol D Lee, North Western University, USA. Shared Google Notes - feel free to add to them!
5.30 - 7.30	Welcome event in Owen Glenn Building. A “wine and cheese.
Tuesday April 19th
9.00 - 10.30	Sharing our practice: Panel presentation. Claire Amos, Hamish Chalmers and Karen Melhuish will focus on working with new digital technologies within the English classroom. OR Workshops: Session Three
10.30 - 11.00	Morning tea
11.00 - 12.00	Keynote: Professor Pamela Grossman, Stanford University, USA. Shared Google Notes - feel free to add to them!
12.00 - 1.00	1. A presentation from The Ugly Shakespeare Company: 2. Alison Wong in conversation with Kate De Goldi 3. Screening of The Comics Show [Shirley Horrocks]
1.00 - 2.00	Lunch
2.00 - 3.30	Workshops, papers and seminars: Session Four
3.30 - 4.00	Afternoon tea
4.00 - 5.00	Keynote: Glenn Colquhoun, poet. Shared Google Notes - feel free to add to them!
Early evening guided walk in the Domain or along the waterfront.
6.30 - 9.00	Lit Quiz in Fale Pasifika. Register for this event and come ready to make up a team and meet new people.
Wednesday April 20th
9.00-10.00	Keynote: Professor Debra Myhill, University of Exeter, UK. Shared Google notes - feel free to add to them!
10.00 - 10.30	Morning tea
10.30 - 12 00	Sharing our practice: Panel presentation. Ros Ali, Jennifer Glenn and Shaun Hawthorne will discuss key practices in teaching writing. Shared Google Notes - feel free to contribute OR workshops: Session Five
12.00 - 1.00	AGM: NZATE Writing for publication in professional journals.
1.00 - 2.00	Lunch
2.00 - 3.00	Keynote: Professor Barbara Comber, Queensland University of Technology. Shared Google notes - feel free to add to them!
3.00 - 3.30	Afternoon tea
3.30 - 4.30	The writers’ panel: Glenn Colquhoun, Kate de Goldi, Alison Wong in conversation with Emily Perkins.
Guided walk in domain, university grounds or waterfront.
7.00.p.m.	Conference dinner at Maritime Room, Viaduct Harbour.
Thursday April 21st
9.00 - 10.30	Workshops, papers and seminars: Session Six
10.30 - 11.00	Morning tea
11.00 - 12.00	Closing Keynote: Professor Hilary Janks, The University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. Shared Google notes - feel free to add to them!
12.00 - 12.30	Drawing the threads together- a summing up of the conference.
12.30 - 1.00	Poroporoaki or farewell. A bagged lunch will be available for participants as they head off for the Easter break.
Session One: Monday April 18th, 12noon – 1.30 p.m.
Papers – All 45 minute sessions – presentations are paired
1P	Gary Snapper Rachel Cunneen & Steve Shann	Reading the world - school to university - making the transition from school to university English. Mythopoetics in the English Curriculum A Dialogue
2P	Sue Dymoke Jan Chapman	Pre-service English teachers: what are the pleasures and challenges of learning to teach poetry in diverse cultural settings? Are Year 12 students interested in English and do they value it?
3P	Melanie Shoffner Andy Goodwyn	Classroom concerns: Examining beginning English teachers issues of practice. That Excellent Teacher of English.
4P	Ronnie Davey & Faye Parkhill Liz Probert	Using subtitled movies for Rapid Reading and Improvement. Not research again- all they do is copy stuff! The increasingly important need to develop students’ information literacy skills.
5P	Sarah Beck Larissa MacLean Davies	Literacy tools for literary understanding: An investigation of heuristics in the English classroom. Magwitch madness: exploring archive fever in texts and curriculum in Australia and New Zealand.
Seminars – All 45 minute sessions – presentations are paired
6S	Carrie Wastal Ken Watson	New Technologies in Neuro-Science and Social Theories of Expertise Transforming Our Writing Pedagogy Great Grammar Hoax.
7S	David Taylor	Web of Deceit: Is the internet making your students stupid?
8S	Janet Alsup, Marshall George & Louann Reid Kelli McGraw	Global Perspectives: Teacher Educators discuss opportunities and challenges. The English teacher practitioner –rewriting our role
9S	Alison Cleary	Culture Counts Power sharing in the classroom.
Workshops
10W	Leith Daniel	Bugs, Buffy, and Santa’s Giant Sack: Using Sci-fi, Fantasy and Horror in the English classroom.
11W	Bridget McLeod Jude Maw	Literacy for Low-level Learners. When Worlds Collide.
12W	Garry Collins	Learning Language with The Lady of Shalott.
13W	Leanne Lamb	Students Taking Control – Turning A Reader’s Passion into Credits.
14W	Jackie Manuel	Teenagers and Reading: Promoting Transformative Pedagogy.
15W	Joanne O’Mara	“How to Heal a Broken Wing”: exploring rich, literary picture books through process drama.
16W	Hamish Chalmers e-presentation and task design template from workshop	Visual English - Students utilising digital tools to create teaching texts
17W	Anne Hamer Yvette Isherwood	Lights, camera, action. Beyond the Text: a taxonomy of tasks.
18W	Selina Marsh Shared Google Notes - please add	Weaving Pasifika Poetry Web into your classroom.
Session Two: Monday April 18th, 2.15 p.m. 3.45 p.m.
Sharing our practice: Panel presentation: Mina Pomare and Chris Selwyn. Meeting the needs of Maori immersion learners in the English classroom (see page 15 for details) OR
Workshops
19W	Phil Maw & Jo Morris	Out with the Old, In with the New.
20W	Julie Bain, Karen Farrow, Louise Cullen & Paul Gough	Multi platform storytelling in English classrooms: Inspiration, concerns and practice- experiences of four teachers across different Australian Systems.
21W	Dorothy Vinicombe Summar Austin	Thematic Teaching with a Digital perspective. Digi-English Made Easy.
22W	Michelle Hesketh & Gabrielle Smith	Slave in name only.
23W	Brenton Doecke & Douglas McClenaghan	Imaginative recreation in an Australian literature classroom.
24W	Derek Wenmoth & Neil Pitches	“Bringing Literacy to You” - Transformative possibilities for teacher PLD
25W	Jane Hall	More than meets the eye – close reading visual text with a media eye.
Film	Shirley Horrocks {Director}	*The New Oceania*, a film about Albert Wendt.
Session Three: Tuesday April 19th, 9.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m.
Sharing our practice: Panel presentation: Claire Amos, Hamish Chalmers and Karen Melhuish (see page 15 for details) OR Google Notes - feel free to add to them!
Workshops
26W	Dylan Horrocks	Comics and Graphic Novels in the Classroom.
27W	Fiona Burns	Using blogs for collaborative learning.
28W	Vanessa Gibby	A Vision of the Future.
29W	Lisa Cleland	Using the stairs to excellence: using SOLO taxonomy with unfamiliar texts and essay writing.
30W	Shaun Hawthorne	Effective practices in teaching writing.
31W	Kelly Malone	Crafty Manoeuvres.
32W	Catherine Blomkamp	Being Kiwi – a junior introductory programme suited to teachers in multi-cultural schools in NZ, focusing on what it means to be a “Kiwi”.

Session Four: Tuesday April 19th, 2.00 p.m. – 3.30 p.m.
Papers – All 45 minute sessions – presentations are paired
33P	Terry Locke & Helen Kato Gillian Hubbard		Poetry for the disenchanted: How a marginal Year 12 English class was turned on to writing. Text choice in NZ English secondary school programmes: The perceptions of beginning teachers.
34P	Claudia Rozas Gomez Low Ying Ping & Joshua Ang		English as “more than a skeleton”: Differentiating literacy in secondary English classrooms. Rewriting the canon: Literature curricula text lists.
35P	Kerry-Ann O’Sullivan Anne Cloonan, Kirsten Hutchinson & Louise Paatsch		Blogging about books: the online identities and discourses of teenagers. Twenty-first century literacies: the impact of one-to-one net-books.
36P	Graham Parr Peter Webb		Speaking back to standards-based reforms. Expectations of Heads of Department English
37P	Tara Tuchaai Andy Goodwyn		Critical literacy practices and higher order thinking in a Western Australian Literature course. English or Literacy? Whose identity is it anyway?
38P	Sue Dymoke Eileen Honan		Pre-service English teachers: What does their Masters level assignment work reveal about developing pedagogical concerns? Rethinking the literacy capabilities of pre-service teachers.
39P	Brian Boyd Roy Fox		Literature, Evolution, and Cognition Images, Words, and “Healing”: An Experimental Course.
Seminars All 45 minute sessions – presentations are paired
40S	Louann Reid Sarah Beck		Creative Possibilities for Teaching Graphic Narratives. What do teachers need to know about writing to practice good formative assessment? Implications for teacher education.
41S	Janet von Randow		Much ado about academic literacy: Nine years of diagnostic language needs assessment at the University of Auckland.
Workshops 90 Minutes
42W	Claire Amos	Using ICTs in English.
43W	Shane Barnes	Much Ado About Shakespeare.
44W	Daniel McQuillan	Deconstructing film for senior English.
45W	Susy Carryer & Massey HS English department	Making it Work: Te Kotahitanga in the Classroom.
46W	Dylan Horrocks	Comics and Graphic Novels in the Classroom [repeat of earlier session]
47W	Hilari Anderson	HOT STUFF - drama inspired by the sun, fire and volcanoes.
48W	Robin Holding	Much ado about making sure all’s well and as you like it for Scholarship.
49W	Ngaire Hoben	Juggling support and challenge: Becoming an effective mentor to pre-service English teachers.

Session Five: Wednesday April 20th, 10.30 a.m. – 12 noon
Sharing our practice: Panel presentation: Ros Ali, Jennifer Glenn and Shaun Hawthorne. (see page 16 for details) OR
Workshops
50W	Sue Dymoke	Writing poetry in the classroom.
51W	Neil Pitches	Comprehension instruction for digital natives: How digital shared reading and co-operative learning are transforming two diverse NZ classrooms.
52W	Debbie Dwyer	Creative responses in English: What, why, who, and how?
53W	Viv Aitken	'Mantle of the Expert' (MOTE), Dramatic-based inquiry learning: a cross-curricular approach to teaching and learning.
54W	Hayden Maskell	We're getting somewhere! - Engaging low achievers and disengaged students through Music Videos and Films
55W	Lisa Samuels Belinda Develter	Teaching Experimental Writing in the English Classroom What is it that makes us human? An NCEA Level 2 visual text study of Moon by Duncan Jones.
56W	Michelle Johnansson	Putting a tick in the “Sione” box
Film	Shirley Horrocks {Director}	*Early days yet,* a film about Allen Curnow.

Session Six: Thursday April 21st , 9.00 a.m. – 10.30 a.m.
Papers – All 45 minute sessions – presentations are paired
57P	Janet Alsup, Jennifer Richardson & Lisa Schade Eckert	Continuing Education and the English Teacher: How graduate programs transform secondary classrooms.
58P	Janet MacIntosh Tara Star Johnson	Reflective writing: Enriching practical knowledge of pre-service English language & literacy teachers. Teachers-turned-lovers: Sexual misconduct signposts in the English classroom.
59P	Julie Bain Sean Sturm & Stephen Turner	English teachers are curriculum superheroes: Diversity, transformation and direction in the context of secondary, multi-modal English pedagogy. “Letting Learn”: Teaching Digital Literacy
60P	John Taylor Gloria Latham	Teenage personal reading: An insight into the habits, attitudes and beliefs of a “cuspal” generation Teaching Reading: Where new narratives in the Virtual inform the Actual.
Seminars – Either 90 minutes, or 45 minute sessions as paired presentations.
61S	Brenton Doecke, Sandy Harris, Terry Locke, & Graham Parr	Literature teaching across the world: local and international conversations. [90 minutes]
62S	Catherine Beavis & Joanna O’Mara	Literacy, learning, and computer games: Attending to game play [90 minutes]
63S	Marion Meiers Michael Moore and Don Zancanella	Landmarks in the Evolution of English Curriculum in Vict. Australia 1968-2010. The secret history of English Language Arts Standards in the US.
Link	Théorie Musicale	Guitare Piano Chant Musique Batterie
64S	Helen Sykes Elizabeth Noll	Is there a canon for YA Literature, in particular of those YA books used in secondary English classrooms? Much Ado About Vampires in YA Literature.
Workshops
65W	Aaron Wilson	Literacy Learning in Subject Areas
66W	Philippa Wintle	Poetry at Level 2: Stuffy and irrelevant or empowering and ‘choice’
67W	Piper Mejia & Glen Sinclair	Where they start from does not limit where we take them.
68W	Tara Tuchaai	Practical approaches to developing and evaluating critical reading competencies and higher order thinking in a Year 11 literature course.
69W	Jessica Rigold	“The play’s the thing….”
70W	Simon Ferguson	Whither the Bard?’ Shakespeare and the NZC
71W	Cynthia Orr	Do we have to throw out the baby out with the bathwater? A practical approach to the Level 1 Standards realignment.
72W	Mark Amsler & Miriam Meyerhoff	critical language awareness
73W	Leanne Lamb	Tailoring Learning in English – Finding a workable solution for schools somewhere between bespoke and one-size-fits-all English studies.
74W	Annabel Harris & Jon Greer	They say-I say-And So. Case studies of needy students and even needier teachers.
75W	Sian Evans	Literary theory in the English classroom.
Film	Shirley Horrocks {Director}	*Marti: The Passionate Eye*. A film about Marti Friedlander

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Much Ado About English

IFTE CONFERENCE 2011

April 18 - 21 2011

University of Auckland

Auckland, New Zealand

Link to conference website

Welcome to the Much Ado About English Conference Wiki!

How to use this wiki:

PS. Only highlight a few keywords in your title, otherwise the index to the right is going to get really long!

If you are feeling brave, why not get someone to film you and upload the video to YOUTUBE and embed your presentation on your workshop page after. You may like to encourage attendees to add to your page as well.

Delegates - Use this wiki to access resources shares from your workshops and others. You might like to share any notes you have typed up. Why not create a Google doc and share it on the workshop page?

IFTE Much Ado About English Conference Notice Board

Post any important updates here!

Programme Index